[Khaama (Afghanistan)] A shootout has taken place among the local public uprising forces and snuffies affiliated with the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan.
The incident took place late on Sunday night in the vicinity of Nazian district, leaving several people dead from the two sides.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the clash erupted after the local public uprising forces stormed into the hideouts of the terror group in Morchal area.
The statement further added that the clash left at least eight ISIS-K snuffies dead while three others were tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! .
At least two public uprising forces were also killed during the clash and two others sustained injuries, the provincial government added in its statement.
According to the governor’s office, the maimed public uprising forces are under treatment and their condition has been reported as satisfactory.
The anti-government armed myrmidon groups including ISIS Khurasan snuffies have not commented regarding the report so far.
This is not the first time the public uprising forces and the ISIS snuffies are engaging each other but numerous such incidents have taken place in the past as well.
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The US forces targeted the hideouts of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) in eastern Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province of Afghanistan amid ongoing operations against the terror group in this province.
The provincial government media office said the Arclight airstrikes were carried out in the vicinity of Haska Mina district, leaving at least six Lions of Islam dead.
According to a statement released by the provincial government, the US forces unmanned aerial vehicles targeted key ISIS-K compounds in Gorgori and Chongi area of the district.
In the meantime, the Afghan forces conducted an operation in Pira Khel area of Khogyani district and confiscated four rockets, one Dshk heavy machine gun, a communication device set, one magnetic bomb, and some munitions and explosives.
The Afghan forces also discovered and defused an improvised bomb planted by the Lions of Islam in Bati Kot district, the provincial government said.
This comes as the provincial government had earlier said that a shootout has taken place among the local public uprising forces and Lions of Islam affiliated with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan.
The provincial government media office in a statement said the clash erupted after the local public uprising forces stormed into the hideouts of the terror group in Morchal area.
The statement further added that the clash left at least eight ISIS-K Lions of Islam dead while three others were tossed in the clink I ain't sayin' nuttin' widdout me mout'piece! At least two public uprising forces were also killed during the clash and two others sustained injuries, the provincial government added in its statement.
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[RADIOSHABELLE] A Somali official says at least five al-Shabaab ... the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord... members were killed during a fierce shootout in the town of Qoryoley in Lower Shabelle region on Sunday night.
Ibrahim Malable, a local official in the town said an al-Shabaab commander who spearheaded the attack has been beheaded by the government after capturing him alive.
The officer noted that the forces have conducted door to door operations on Monday morning to pursue al-Shabaab remnants in the town following the overnight assault.
Malable did not comment on the casualties on their side as result of the al-Shabaab attack that prompting heavy fighting between the Somali troops and the Lion of Islams.
Al-Shabaab which maintains links with Al Qaeda has been fighting to overthrow the UN-backed Somali Federal government in Mogadishu for almost ten years.
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[PREMIUMTIMESNG] Saturday’s mass killing of at least 86 people who were attending a funeral event in Plateau state was an act of Dire Revenge following an earlier attack, the cattle rearers’ group, Miyetti Allah, has said.
Police said 86 people were killed in several villages while six persons were maimed in the attack that lasted between 1p.m. and 8p.m.
But residents said Monday over 120 people were massacred in separate attacks at different locations.
The state government has imposed a dusk to dawn curfew in parts of the state, amid growing tensions between locals and migrant herdsmen community. Residents blame the attacks on Fulani herdsmen, a group represented by the Miyetti Allah.
On Monday, the chairman the north central chapter of Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN), Danladi Ciroma, condemned the attacks.
Mr. Ciroma however said in a statement that the attacks were "retaliatory".
"These attacks are retaliatory. As much as I don’t support the killing of human being, the truth must be told that those who carried out the attacks must be on Dire Revenge mission," he said.
"Fulani herdsmen have lost about 300 cows in the last few weeks ‐ 94 cows were rustled by armed Berom youths in Fan village, another 36 cows were killed by Berom youths. In addition to that, 174 cattle were rustled."
The police said the attacks occurred in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area. It almost led to reprisal attacks by in Jos, the state capital, on Sunday, with the government imposing a curfew.
A resident of Barkin Ladi had earlier told PREMIUM TIMES that 120 people were killed by the attackers.
In a statement on Sunday evening, the police also confirmed that six persons were maimed, with 50 houses razed.
"Eighty six (86) persons all together were killed, six people injured, fifty (50) houses burnt, fifteen (15) cycle of violences burnt down; two (2) motor vehicles burnt down," the police said in a statement by its spokesperson in Plateau, Terna Tyopev.
Mr Tyopev said bodies were discovered by a search party set up by the Plateau State commissioner of police, Undie Adie.
"Sequel to the attack in Gashish District of Barkin Ladi LGA yesterday (Saturday) 23/06/2018 , the commissioner of police Plateau State Command, Jos, CP Undie Adie, after deploying more personnel to the district sent a search and rescue team from the Command headquarters today for on the spot assessment," it said.
Pam Chollom, a pastor of the Church of Christ In Nations (COCIN), who blamed the attack on armed herdsmen, said most of the victims were returning from the burial of a community leader.
The attacks have been widely condemned.
The Plateau state chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Nanyah Daman, called on President Muhammadu Buhari to immediately replace all service chiefs.
"We strongly call on President Muhammadu Buhari who came on the mantra of Security,Corruption and Economic recovery to immediately sack and replace all the service chiefs and their paramilitary counterparts for allowing foreigners and the Fulani herdsmen gunnies to kill and maim defenceless children, women and men for four consecutive days unabated," he said in a statement Monday.
The chairman of the northern zone of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Yakubu Pam, also condemned the killings.
The group called on the government at all levels to wake up to their primary responsibility of protecting the lives of citizens.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... militias on Sunday announced that their commander at the Hardh front in the Hajjah Governorate, northwest of Yemen, has been killed along with dozens of their bandidosholy warriors following Arclight airstrikes carried out by the Arab Coalition.
The commander was identified as Abdelrazak Abdullah Ali al-Naami, popularly known as Abu Ahmad. He was tasked with commanding Houthis in the Hardh front where confrontations have escalated between the Houthis and the legitimate forces.
The Houthis did not specify when exactly Abu Ahmad was killed, but sources revealed that he was killed months ago. They added that the Houthis kept this secret because they wanted to maintain the morale of their fighters.
Abu Ahmad’s brother Radwan was also killed at the Hardh front ten days ago.
The Houthis’ strategy is to also hide their defeats in several fighting fronts, especially in the west coast and in their major stronghold in Saada.
Hundreds of Houthi commanders have recently been killed after they had to be directly involved in fighting fronts to compensate for the shortage in fighters.
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[EN.ABNA24] The Saudi-led coalition’s fighter jets on Sunday launched 18 Arclight airstrikes on several districts of Saada province, as well as the Saudi army fired rockets and shells on borders areas in the province, a security official said.
An airstrike hit a civilian house in Talan area of Haidan district and another targeted Qad area of Razih district.
16 other airkstrikes targeted Azhour area.
The shelling of the Saudi army hit Razih and Shada border provinces.
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[EN.ABNA24] The Yemeni army fired 12 ballistic missiles at the Saudi-led coalition forces within three weeks of the escalation in the western coast, according to a report issued Sunday by Ansarullah’s al-Masira newspaper. And if you can't trust the Houthis' official newspaper, who can you trust?
The ballistic missiles hit their targets with high precision, the report said.
The report revealed that the army and popular forces inflicted heavy losses on the coalition forces and their mercenaries from al-Amaliqa Brigades formed from different nationalities, al-Qaeda, and ISIS myrmidons.
According to the report, an Emirati barge and over 331 military vehicles of the coalition were destroyed and an Emirati manned reconnaissance plane was shot down.
The army’s drones also carried out six air operations against targets in the coalition’s camps in the coast during the same period.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... forces continued their military campaign along the Saudi-Yemeni border, today, seizing an important base in the Ulab region.
According to the official media wing of the Houthi forces, their troops overran the Saudi-backed fighters at a military base located near the Ulab Crossing into northern Yemen.
The Houthi forces reported that they captured the military garrison and killed several Saudi-backed troops, including many Sudanese fighters at this installation.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... rebels launched a counter offensive in west coast and fully secured al-Jah area following fierce battles with the UAE-backed forces, cutting off all supply routes.
A 25-minute video published by the group’s media wing shows part of the festivities which destroyed 7 armored vehicles and allowed the Iran-backed fighters to seize 5 others as well as huge quantities of weapons and ammunitions.
A number of vehicles were also set ablaze after the UAE-backed snuffies escaped the battlefield.
According to Houthis, scores of ’mercenaries’ have been killed and maimed in the festivities, others had been captured alive and given the appropriate medical aid.
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[DAWN] Yemen’s Houthis deployed additional forces in the main port city of Hodeidah on Sunday as a Saudi-led military coalition moved closer to the city centre in the largest offensive of the war, raising UN fears of a humanitarian catastrophe.
The alliance led by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... and the United Arab Emirates launched its assault on the heavily defended Red Sea city on June 12 to try to weaken the Iran-aligned Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... movement by cutting off a key supply line for the group which controls the capital Sanaa and most populated areas.
"There is a heavy deployment of armed Houthis in the city and new check points have been set up in neighbourhoods where there are supporters of the Tehama brigades," said one resident, referring to a Yemeni faction from the Red Sea coastal plain that is fighting with coalition forces.
Fierce festivities broke out after midnight near Hodeidah University, around 3 km west of the city centre, on the coastal road linking the airport to the port, added the resident, who requested anonymity.
Coalition forces seized the airport on Wednesday and have been consolidating their hold in the area as UN efforts continued to reach a political deal that would avert an assault on the port, a lifeline for millions of Yemenis.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A suspected radical who once served as the late Osama bin Laden ... who doesn't live anywhere anymore... ’s bodyguard, was detained in Germany on Monday, police said.
The case of the Tunisian man, Sami A., sparked outrage in April after German media reported that he was receiving welfare benefits even though intelligence agencies have classified him as a potential threat.
Authorities in the western city of Bochum had asked police to detain Sami A. and the man did not resist, a front man for police there said. Top-selling newspaper Bild reported, without citing its sources, that Sami A. was now due to be deported.
Police could not confirm that, pointing instead to authorities in Bochum. A spokesperson for the city of Bochum could not be immediately reached.
Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has ordered immigration authorities to expedite proceedings that would allow Germany to deport Sami A.
German authorities have been trying to deport the man, who has lived in the northwestern city of Bochum since 1997, since 2006 but the threat of torture in his home country had prevented this, according to a previous report in Bild.
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[DAWN] Twenty-five people were maimed, four of them severely, when an kaboom destroyed an apartment building in the western German city of Wuppertal, police said on Sunday.
Police said the kaboom rocked the several-story building shortly before midnight with a large bang, scaring people in surrounding homes so much they ran out into the street in a panic.
The detonation was so severe it destroyed the building’s attic and the top three floors, the German news agency dpa reported.
Fire then broke out in several different parts of the apartment building and firefighters had trouble dousing the flames because parts of the building kept collapsing.
They were able to rescue four severely injured from inside the building and sent them to the hospital. Another 21 people were slightly injured and treated by emergency staff at the scene.
Police said they were in the dark about the cause of the kaboom, dpa reported.
A car nearby was destroyed, buried under window frames that were blown onto it by the kabooms’ impact. Emergency personnel on Sunday picked up bricks and furniture on the street.
Some of the building’s roof beams stood black and eerie in the smoke as police scoured accessible parts of the building for further people trapped inside before giving the all-clear.
Where the building stood is now a huge gap in a row of apartment buildings in the city’s Langerfeld neighbourhood.
Later on Sunday, authorities brought in heavy equipment to tear down the remains of the ruin.
They said it was too dangerous for Sherlocks to search for evidence that might reveal the kaboom’s cause because the destroyed building could collapse at any time.
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My two pfennigs say someone was making TATP in the kitchen sink. Definitely not terrorism tho.
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Mohammedan homily? Nein! Seismic anomaly!
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>They said it was too dangerous for Sherlocks to search for evidence that might reveal the kaboom’s cause because the destroyed building could collapse at any time.
Diyala (IraqiNews.com) Iraqi troops have locked away Drop the gat, Rocky, or you're a dead 'un! four Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... members and destroyed a headquarter for the murderous Moslem group, north of Diyala, a commander announced on Monday.
Speaking to Alghad Press, Maj. Gen. Mazhar al-Azzawi, said "a joint operation was carried out by the army, police and each of al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) and tribal fighters, backed by the army jets, to purge the regions between Tuz Khurmatu, Kefri, Qurret Tabah and Baghdad-Kirkuk road, north of Diyala. It destroyed a headquarter for the group, six vehicles and five cycle of violences."
"Four Islamic State members, including two of the most dangerous murderous Moslems, were arrested," he said describing this as the most important outcome of the operation.
The operation, according to Azzawi, "is still ongoing. We will announce the outcome after the operation is finished."
Earlier today, a senior security source from the province, announced launching a wide-scale military operation to follow the remnants of the murderous Moslem group in the north of Diyala.
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Seven Iraqi security personnel were killed and injured in an attack, launched by Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... , east of Salahuddin, the Kuwaiti al-Watan newspaper quoted a military source as saying on Monday.
"A group of Islamic State members attacked, after midnight, several checkpoints of police and Tribal Mobilization Fighters in Mutaibija, east of Samarra," the source from Salahuddin police command said. "Confrontations occurred between the two sides, leaving a policeman killed and six others maimed."
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Mot paying these guys enough.
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Kirkuk (Iraqinews.com) ‐ A Kurdish citizen was killed while another injured in an attack launched by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... group in Kirkuk, ... a thick stew of Arabs, Turkmen, Kurds, and probably Antarcticans, all of them mutually hostile most of the time... a security source was quoted saying.
"IS faceless myrmidons stormed a village late Monday in Daquq district in southern Kirkuk, leaving a Kurdish citizen dead and another injured," the source told Iraqi website Baghdad Today.
Kirkuk officials always urge reinforcing military troops in the south and west of the province, as the region still has Islamic State members who escaped during liberation of Hawija to remote areas.
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[EN.ABNA24] A court in Iraq has handed down death sentences to six members of the foreign-sponsored Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... ISIS terrorist group over their involvement in a kaboom in the country’s southern province of Dhi Qar, which claimed the lives of dozens of civilians and left many more injured last September.
A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... , told Arabic-language al-Ghad Press news agency that the criminal court in Dhi Qar issued the verdicts on Sunday, noting that all convicts were Iraqi nationals.
At least 60 people were killed and dozens more maimed in two gun-and-car kabooms near the city of Nassiriyah on September 14, 2017.
The attacks started with person or persons unknown opening fire inside a restaurant on the main highway that links the capital Baghdad with the southern provinces.
Shortly afterwards, a boom-mobile targeted a security checkpoint in the same area.
ISIS terrorist group later grabbed credit for the attacks.
Yahya al-Nassiri, the province's governor, said the majority of the victims were Iranian pilgrims who were inside the restaurant.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The Syrian Arab Army, backed by National Defense Forces, managed to thwart an attack launched by rebel Lions of Islam in the northern countryside of Hama, a Syrian military source said.
"An Army checkpoint at Zalin village was shelled with rockets fired by Lions of Islam in an attempt to score a ground advance. The assault was successfully repelled with artillery units targeting rebel positions and supply lines", the source explained.
The artillery shelling hit the rebels’ main supply route in al-Lataminah; the stronghold of Jaish al-Izza rebel group which carried out the attack.
"A vehicle equipped with a rocket launcher was also destroyed with all Lions of Islam onboard killed", the same source added.
The frontlines in northern Hama countryside have been active lately with jihadi Lions of Islam keep on attempting to break through the Syrian Army defensives.
Jaish al-Izza, an FSA-affiliated rebel faction, is part of a bigger alliance led by al-Qaeda-linked Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham which also includes smaller groups of Uzbek, Chechen and Uyghur bad boys.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The city of Sweida has once more come under rocket attack by rebel fighters stationed in the adjacent eastern countryside of Daraa as the Syrian Army resumes massive assault against terror groups.
Today’s attack has caused substantial material damages in the predominantly-Druze city which has been remained safe until recently.
The rocket attacks are carried out by snuffies of Jabhet al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... and other FSA factions controlling the eastern countryside of Daraa province, now under heavy artillery and aerial bombardment by the Syrian Army.
Hardline snuffies attacked the city twice last week; killing and injuring scores of civilians.
Last night, the Syrian Army’s 4th Division began pounding rebel positions and fortifications in Daraa al-Balad district with the highly-destructive Golan missiles.
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[ALMASDARNEWS] The US-led coalition has reportedly airlifted two senior ISIS commanders from a small village in northeast Syria near the Iraqi borders in coordination with its Kurdish allies controlling the area.
According to local sources, two helicopters of the US coalition landed in Twimin village in order to transport two senior commanders from the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... terror group to the US base in al-Shaddadah town.
The sources said that the operation was carried out in full coordination with the Syrian Democratic Forces since no festivities were reported.
Meanwhile, ...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment... US Arclight airstrikes on eastern Syria has so far massacred hundreds of innocent civilians ‐ mostly women and kiddies ‐ in the pretext of fighting ISIS.
This month, up to 68 civilians have been killed and injured in several US airstrikes across villages and towns in eastern Syria.
The Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) said evacuating ISIS elements comes under the blatant US support for the terror group which aims at prolonging the war in Syria.
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There's really no way to tell. The Medes and the Persians and the Syrians periodically release stories implicating the U.S. with ISIS, al-Qaeda, and God knows what else. My guesses, in order of likelihood:
1. It never happened
2. They were airlifting someone else and al-Masdar decided it had to be ISIS because who else would the U.S. be airlifting?
3. Could be negotiators (i.e., surrender, theirs not ours)
4. Could be high value prisoners
5. Come up with your own guess
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^ 6. There is a story I've heard about Green Berets in Vietnam taking prisoners up in helicopters to ask them questions.
[DAWN] Air strikes on rebel towns in southern Syria killed five civilians and knocked a hospital temporarily out of service on Sunday, a monitor said, in fresh signs of a looming government assault.
Russian-backed regime forces have for weeks been preparing an offensive to retake Syria’s south, a strategic zone that borders both Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
The regime has sent military reinforcements to the area, dropped flyers demanding rebels surrender, and ramped up air strikes in recent days.
Late Saturday, Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Leveler of Latakia... ’s Russian allies began bombing the rebel-held south for the first time since summer 2017, said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The Russian raids continued into Sunday.
"Five civilians including two women were killed on Sunday in Russian strikes on the towns of al-Herak, al-Sura, and Alma," said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman.
The raids on al-Herak hit near a hospital, damaging it and forcing medical staff to shut it down at least temporarily, he said. The three rebel-held towns are located in Daraa province, known widely as the cradle of Syria’s seven-year uprising.
Daraa and the adjacent province of Quneitra are mostly held by opposition forces, while the government controls most of the province of Sweida to the east.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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the Islamic version of the old Somali warlord...
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...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed...
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir 
